# [BUG] The description of pickaxe in git-blame(1) is wrong

1 messages from 2008-12-14 to 2008-12-14. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16729

## Jakub Narebski, 2008-12-14 21:33

Subject: [BUG] The description of pickaxe in git-blame(1) is wrong
Message-ID: <200812142233.49669.jnareb@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200812142233.49669.jnareb%40gmail.com

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I think that the description of how 'pickaxe' feature works in
Documentation/git-blame.txt is wrong. It says:

  Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the
  development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
  possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
  between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. _It works by searching for
  a text string in the diff_. A small example:

The part "It works by searching for a text string in the diff" is,
if I remember correctly, wrong. Actually it (I think) compares how
many matches are in pre-image and in post-image, and shows these
commits where those number differ.

This for example means that pickaxe would not pick commit which
moved a fragment from one place to other without change, I think.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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